Today I posted a couple of photos from a surprisingly rich morning in and around an older growth area of Stony Swamp. I went out not expecting to stay out for long or see much because it was windy, cool and overcast, but I ended up encountering a variety of butterflies (Pearl & Northern Crescent, Eastern Tailed Blue, Monarch, Orange & Clouded Sulphur), finding a rare and regionally significant fern species (Ebony Spleenwort), and confirming the identify of a rare and endangered tree (butternut), the first and only tree of its kind I’ve noted so far in Stony Swamp.
 
My goals this morning, what drove me out on this poor weather day, were to take a few scenics of this older growth area and double check a butternut tree I found earlier in the week, both things I thought were better done in overcast lighting. This is my favorite of the scenics I took.
 
I called this photo "primeval" because I always get a sense, when walking through a dark, damp forest with ferns growing on the ground, that I've been transported back 200 million years. It's the ferns that bring about that primeval feeling. This area also contrasts with the surrounding younger and artificial areas of Stony Swamp.